01-28-2010, 08:59 AM
silvarios wrote:
if Apple wanted Flash (the only third party browser plugin that ships with OS X) to work with 64bit Safari on Snow Leopard, they had to create a system that ran plugins as a separate process. When will Flash become 64bit on the Mac? Who knows? Apple has to wait for Adobe. What company in their right mind would cede control of content distribution to a lazy (incompetent?) third party developer?
Nathan
Something doesn't add up here. Apple includes Flash as "the only third party browser plugin that ships with OS X", but it doesn't work very well. Also, what about Java and JavaScript? Aren't they third party too?
Should we be lobbying for ClickToFlash to also be included, so that Flash only loads when a user requests it? Would this put pressure on Apple and Adobe to sort it out?
Flash runs very poorly on my TiBook. It's the one thing that may push me to upgrade to a newer computer. I can't run any Flash video decently. Even with ClickToFlash's h.264 option YouTube videos have mostly become unwatchable in Safari. I think this is ridiculous, as for years QuickTime provided just as good quality (from my perspective) and worked mostly without hiccups.
How did Flash get so entrenched?
- Winston